My take was that it was a pretty week attempt at some sort of allegory, since Steven was the only one with a World War II plane on the islands?golfmobile wrote:
Secondly, what did finding the old WWII airplane on the ocean floor have to do with Keliki'i's being killed "accidentally" by his father when his father blew up HIS father-in-law on the boat so he could sell the business and get the money? Was the WWII aircraft just some kind of red herring here? Why would the kid's swimming ghost be drawing TM to the WWII plane wreck?
And the ending where the father just flies off into the wild blue yonder never to be heard of again -- uh, no justice there. He could have gotten clean away and started a new life. You got the feeling no one ever followed up much to find a murderer!! Just, oh, well, he flew away.
I found that rather lame.
Otherwise I like the ghost/spooky episodes generally. They just need to make sense. This one, I felt, fell a little short there.
I was thinking, why didn't he just haunt the pane hanger, but I guess because he died in the sea, he had to haunt the sea?
I agree with you golf, the ending did seem a bit lacking. They could have added a line "a few months later they found Steven's plane crashed into a hillside. It wasn't that he was running from the law, it was that he was running from himself."
BAM!
You get the point and and the sense of justice is accomplished. The flying out to sea and never being seen again? Unfulfilling. Like he's going to pop up somewhere and say, "Hey, I committed a double homicide on my father-in-law and son" Yeah, that guys's underground for sure.